I was going to say I dislike this idea, but in reality it's actually a great idea to get the Eastern conference back on track to having a roughly equal parity with the West, because almost all the Eastern conference teams would end up in the lottery instead of the 38-44 Bucks making the playoffs and getting the 15th pick. That said, once you achieve some parity I'd prefer geographic rivalries. Another concern is that you would absolutely have to change the amount of games each team plays against each other team, and travel off days during the playoffs would need to be increased a lot. (imagine an OKC/Raptors first round series)

I don't like the idea. There are two conferences for a reason and in order to limit travel you play teams in your own conference more often. In my opinion Silver needs to slow his role. Seems like he wants to tinker with everything.

The caution I have with this is that the power could switch back to the east or even out quickly. It only seems like a problem because of the big discrepancy this year.

I don't like the idea. There are two conferences for a reason and in order to limit travel you play teams in your own conference more often. In my opinion Silver needs to slow his role. Seems like he wants to tinker with everything.

The caution I have with this is that the power could switch back to the east or even out quickly. It only seems like a problem because of the big discrepancy this year.

If they keep it simple, and keep the scheduling as is(3-4 games vs your own conference, 2 games vs opposite conference) and then have the top 16 teams record wise match up then it'd be fine. I'm sure they could work out the scheduling in the playoffs if East meets West, and it'd be cool to see teams that don't match up often play one another.

But really, just having the best 16 teams duke it out for 4 rounds is the best thing that can happen to the NBA Playoffs besides fixing the refing issue which may never be fixed. No one wants to see Atlanta in the playoffs over Memphis or Phoenix.

This will be good but the only way this would be fair is if every team faces each other an equal amount of times during the season

I agree, this would add a ton of travel time, which may alter teams ability to compete likely giving home teams unfair advantage and destroy geographic rivalries ie Brooklyn would play Sacremento the same amount of times they play the Knicks. Don't worry the East will rise again, and we won't need to talk about this